Peter shares insights from a recent customer request to evaluate and validate hardware configurations for broadcast and live production using Cinedeck.
SideFX Houdini: Performance Analysis and Lessons from Production
Saad Moosajee shares some of his hardware testing, experiences, and learnings from tackling the technical aspects of rendering and simulation in Houdini.
Reality Capture Benchmark Testing Methodologies
We have resumed benchmarking Reality Capture with a brand new benchmark. We look at what this new benchmark entails
CPU and GPU Rendering: Which is best?
The discussions around CPU and GPU rendering often revolve around speed. However, there is many more factors when looking for the best option.
Redshift announces new hardware requirements.
Maxon announces new hardware requirements for both CPU and GPUs. How will this impact existing users, and those shopping for new systems?
Unreal Engine Benchmark Testing Methodologies
Unreal Engine 5 offers some amazing features for game developers and film makers. How do we test for this workflows, and what features are coming to future Unreal Engine benchmarks.
What Happened to High End Desktop (HEDT) Processors?
For several years, both AMD and Intel have offered five general categories of CPUs: Mobile, Consumer Desktop, High-End Desktop, Server, and Workstation. Something strange has been happening to the middle segment, though: HEDT processors are disappearing!
Hardware Popularity in Puget Systems Workstations
A quick look at what hardware components have been popular in workstations we have sold here at Puget Systems over the last six months.
Hardware Trends of 2021
A look back at the trends we’ve seen in hardware sales here at Puget Systems over the last year.
State of the CPU
Earlier this year I wrote about AMD’s comeback, as their processors were being included in more than half of the workstations we sold. It has been a few months now, marked by a lot of hardware shortages in this industry, so I wanted to revisit the situation and look at some additional metrics regarding CPU sales here at Puget Systems.
